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C [ARLES H. DUNHAM, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE DUNHAMMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

STAKE-POCKET FOR PLATFORM-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,396, dated March26, 1889.

Application filed SeptemberlQ, 1888. Serial No. 285,765. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. DUNHAM, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Stake-Sockets' for Platform and other Cars, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention Vhas for its object to provide a socket or holder for thestakes at the sides of platform and other cars which shall be simple andinexpensive in construction and capable of resisting the blows and roughusage to which it is liable to be subjected 5 and to these ends theinvention consists in the improved socket which l will now proceed todescribe and claim. y

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specication, Figure1 represents a side view of a portion of a platform-car, showin g two ofmy improved stake-holders attached thereto. Fig. 2 represents a sectionon of Fig. l, looking toward the left. Fig. 3 represents a section online 3 3 of Fig. l, looking downwardly. Fig. 4 represents aperspectiveView of my improved stakeholder.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all of thegures.

In. carrying out my invention l make a socket, a., and its attaching-bolts b b in a single piece, the socket being a plate of metal bent to-form three sides, which with the side c of the car constitute thesocket. The bolts b l) are formed on the ends of the socket portion andare of sufficient length to extend through the side piece, c, and arescrewthreaded at their ends to engage nuts e e, whereby the socket issecured to the car. The socket is widened or extended above and belowthe bolts, and is provided with longitudinal corrugations 2, extendingits entire length, said corrugations strengthening and stiifen* ingvthesocket, so that it may not be easily indented and distorted by blowswhich it is liable to receive in service. As here shown, the socket hasthree horizontal corrugations or beads-one at the center and the othersnear the edges of the socket.

l claim- The improved stake socket or holder composed of a single piececomprising the bent body and the screw-threaded bolts formed on the endsof said body, the latter being made wider than the diameter of the boltsand provided with longitudinal corrugations, whereby the body isstrengthened and stiffened, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, this 15th day of September, A. D.1888.

CHARLES H. DUNHAM.

Witnesses:

C. F. BROWN, W. C. RAMSAY.

